LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 23 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The British Museum authorities deny the statement that pictures have been stolen. Tt has been decided to erect a convent at Ohakune. It will be opened in February next.

The time for receiving nominations for the Atiwa Sports meeting at Waitara has been extended to Saturday' next, February '2B. A cable from Berne (Switzerland) says that Captain L-arginer, attached to the "French Ministry of War, has been expelled on a charge of espionage. Watson street, between Courtenay and Devon streets, is in a bad condition, no fewer than four people, it is reported to us, having come to grief there during the past week or so. A cheque for £SO has been sent to the Wellington Automobile Club to assist in defraying the cost of erecting sign-posts in the Wellington district. The donor does not wish his name published.

The. native land problem is to be discussed by a meeting of natives to bv held at Parihaka next month, at which prominent Maoris from all parts of the North Inland will be present. His Excellency the 'Governor is to be invited to visit Parihaka during the progress of the. meeting.

On Thursday Mr. Murphy (the guide and caretaker of Dawson Falls House), with Mr Fairburn (Wanganui) and two ladies, set out to re-discover Lake Dive, After five hours' strenuous work, cutting through scrub and bush, the party reached the lake. The journey occupied the same time on the return. The engineering classes at the New Plymouth Technical College, under the new permanent instructor, Mr. Fitzpatrick, are already making good progress. Since Tuesday last, when the new instructor took charge, the class has increased to 20, and when tho working models are in commission a further increase is expected.

A tuatara lizard that was consigned from Waikino to a well-known Auckland resident was seized fiy the police, as it is not lawful to have these reptiles in one's possession. It was not known where the tuataTa was captured, and the police the retaining possession of it pending further instructions. The reptile is about 15in in length, and appears to he quite, healthy, although it has lost one ere.

In this issue l'rofessor Cardston states that he requires the services of over 142 young ladies and gentlemen to commence his rehearsals for the dancing in connection with the band carnival to be held in the Theatre Royal from the 23rd to 28th of March ■ext. The pupils will be coached from now until the carnival takes place, in the various dances, which arc classic, comic and picturesque. Many a golden head of daffodil will be missing from the bright ranks of next spring, A pest has come among the bulba>—the little wriggler of large appetite—and the havoc is widespread. A Wellington enthusiast says that this latest enemy of the much-worried gardener came with bulbs imported from Holland. The destroyer enters the leaf and works down to the root. It is believed that the bulbs of other plants—onions, for example—may be attacked, an d therefore a. vigorous campaign against the devastating" immigrant ia urged. When lifted, the bulbs should be sun-dried, fumigated with cyanide of potash, and replanted in fresh ground each season.

Referring to what he had seen in Ireland during his recent visit there, the Rev. Father Holbrook said to an interviewer in Auckland: "1 had been absent for over eleven years, and was greatly struck with the, transformation which it has undergone. One of the outstanding features of the revival is the housing of the farm laborers. The local bodies in Ireland, in co-operation with the Government, have built 44.1)00 cottages—comfortable five-roomed erections of brick, each standing on an acre of hud. The rent for those cottages is from 10(1 to Is per week, and this alone practically means good housing for a quarter of a million people. Again, the standard of living in Ireland to-day is vastly improved, and, generally speaking, the mass of the people is cowtented and thrifty. Take as an instance of the growing prosperity the savings .bank investments, ft may seem almost incredible to those so long accustomed to associate Ireland with poverty and thriftlessness that the savings bank deposits per capita of the population are a good deal higher tlmn in England, Wales of Scotland. The actual figures, in sh#rt, are:—lreland, £27 lis per head; Knghmd and Wales, ,t'2() Scotland, £IS lis. This is convincing proof of the increasing prosperity of the Irish people."

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Sufferers from Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, and Lumbago frequently resort to cure-alls and laxatives for relief—but in vain. Excess uric acid in the blood is the cause of the trouble. RBEUMO is the one remedy, because it is scientifically compounded to remove the cause. 2/6 and 4/0 everywhere. gg

The takings at the Royal Artillery Hand concert in Piihekura l'ark last week, £271 10s, were claimed to be a record for a shilling gate, but for the hand contest marching competition in the Park, in IDO2, the takings amounted to £27(i Ifis 3d, the admission being the same. This certainly goes one better.

A sheep that dies in the Ashburtoii county does not have time to grmv cold before it is rent by hawks and seagulls, some of the latter travelling right to the foot of the hills in search 01 food (says (lie Mail). The seagull, when a feast is not obtainable, employs its time catching insects for food,' whereby ft does its share to retard the increase of insect pests.

A swarm of bees recently took up its abode under a horse feeder that was in use nil a farm here (writes the Wendon correspondent of the Matuura Knsign). At dinner-time, when half-a-dozen horses were eating round the feeder, the bees continued busily with their work, Hying in and out among the horses' legs, but never attempting to sting the animals. The horses were at first rather alarmed, probably taking the little workers for a horde of botflies, but on finding themselves unmolested they became quite quiet.

A telegram from Christchurch reports that a serious attack was made by a bulldog on a little girl at Lincoln on Saturday afternoon. About four o'clock those in the vicinity of the store were alarmed by the heartrending cries of a little girl, who, whilst riding a bicycle past the store, was set upon by a bulldog, which charged her and attempted to drag her off her bicycle. The girl was between ten and tvelve years of age, and at one juncture she had to put her legs on the handle-bar to escape the attacks of the dog. The people who were alarmed by the girl's cries stoned the dog off, otherwise she might have come to serious harm. The dog chased her for three or four chains, and if it had not been driven off it is almost certain n wouli have torn the child from her bicycle. The dog is said to charge all cyclists, and is a menace to the safety of people riding bicycles. But fancy telegraphing that!